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One such simplified treatment is the derivative Forward-Backward Semiclassical Dynamics (FBSD) method. FBSD has an important limitation in that its description of the dynamics of quantum systems is accurate only for short times, since the method proceeds by assigning quantum weights to classical trajectories, and is unable to describe systems which exhibit strong coherence. An extension of this method described in this work makes it possible to apply quantum propagation to the system while simultaneously applying FBSD propagation to the surrounding bath. There are two principal reasons why this extension is non-trivial. First, because FBSD uses a statistical (Monte-Carlo) methodology to perform the requisite integral, the method is optimal when the resulting observable can be particle-averaged with respect to the system components. When the system is inhomogeneous, such averaging is no longer possible, reducing the capability of the method. 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